Growth refers to an increase in some quantity over time. The quantity can be:

• Physical (e.g., growth in height, growth in an amount of money)
• Abstract (e.g., a system becoming more complex, an organism becoming more mature).

It can also refer to the mode of growth, i.e. numeric models for describing how much a particular quantity grows over time.

Biology

• Cell growth
• A tumor is sometimes referred to as a "growth"
• Bacterial growth
• Human development (biology)
  • Auxology, the study of all aspects of human physical growth
• Growth hormone

Social science

• Human development (humanity)
• Developmental psychology
• Personal development ("Personal growth")
• Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, stages of individual growth
• Population growth

Economy

• Economic growth
• For financial growth due to simple interest or compound interest see Interest
• Growth investing

Mathematical models

• Linear growth
• Logistic growth, characterized as an S curve
• Exponential growth, also called geometric growth
• Hyperbolic growth

Films

• Growth (film), a 2010 American horror film

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Noun

growth (plural growths)

1. an increase in size, number, value, or strength

   Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.

2. (biology) the act of growing, getting bigger or higher
3. (biology) something that grows or has grown
4. (pathology) an abnormal mass such as a tumor

Synonyms

• (increase in size): enlargement, expansion, increase, increment
• (act of growing): development, maturation
• (something that grows or has grown): vegetation
• (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): outgrowth, cancer, mass

Growth refers to an increase in some quantity over time. The quantity can be physical (e.g., growth in height, growth in an amount of money) or qualitative (e.g., a system becoming more complex, an organism becoming more mature). The term is often applied to concepts involving self-help, when individuals or a groups attempt economic, intellectual or emotional improvement. A basis for such growth is often self-reliance, public knowledge or groups where people with similar problems or interests join together.

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